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G. SCHMIDT.

Button Shoe.

No. 242,990. Patentedlunel4,l88l.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGIETTE SCHMIDT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN A. F. SOHIWID'I, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,990, dated June 14, 1881 Application filed April 28, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGIETTE SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Button-Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in that class of buttoned shoesin which thebuttons are held by metallic fastenin gs, the object of my invention being to prevent the annoyance, loss of time, andinjury to the shoe caused by the tearing out of the but-tons and theirfastenings when said buttons are subjected to any undue strain. This object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ladys shoe. with a portion of the outer flap turned back and one of the buttons removedin order to illustrate my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section of a portion of the shoe drawn to an enlarged scale.

Metallic fasteners passed through the eyes of the buttons and bearing against the lining of the shoe are extensively used in place of sewing to secure the buttons; but such fasteners are objectionable inladies shoes and other shoes of the finer class having uppers of kid or fine calf-skin, owing to the fact that said uppers must be pierced for the reception of the eye of the button, and when thus pierced the fibers are separated or torn apart by the piercing-instrument, and the material is weakened to such an extent that a further tearing of the same and a consequent loosening or complete tearing out of the button and its fastening are liable to occur whenever said button is subjected to undue strain, much annoyance, loss of time, and injury to the shoebeing thereby caused.

In carrying out myinvention Iform in the i nner flap of the shoe to which the buttons are to be applied a series of openings, which are then eyeleted prior to the application of said buttons, the eyes of the latter and the loops of the metallic fasteners which secure the same beingadapted to said eyeleted openings when the shoe is complete. (See Fig. 2.)

As the openin gs in the inner flap are made by punchinginstead of piercing, and the edges of said openings are firmly bound at all points by the metallic eyelets, it will be evident that the material of which the upper of the shoe is composed is not weakened, but, on the contrary, is strengthened so far as concerns its resistance to the strain exerted upon it by the buttons and their fastenings. Moreover, the application or removal of the buttons can be accomplished much more readily with my improved shoe than with a shoe having openings formed therein as usual, and the buttons, when the shoe is in use, are capable of free movement, in order to accommodate themselves to the movements of the wearers foot.

I claim as my invention- The combination in a bootor shoe, of an eyebutton having a head adapted to an ordinary button-hole in the outer flap, with an eyeleted opening in the inner flap for receiving the eye of the button, and with a fastening passing through the said eye of the button and partlyprojecting into the eyeleted button-hole, all as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two sub scribing witnesses.

GEORGIET'IE SCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

ARMER F. MoOoRMroK, HENRY HowsoN, Jr. 

